What is a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)?
Your organization is growing and so is its IT infrastructure every day. With growth, comes addition of people, resources, and hardware and software assets. It is of essential importance that all assets of your...
ITSM Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide
IT service management (ITSM) focuses on integrating IT services with the organization's overall operations and processes, so it is important to understand ITSM best practices for improving efficiency. Since most of the applications are...
Understanding ITIL Service Validation and Testing
ITIL V3 introduced service validation and testing as a new process to test and validate the new services or changes to the existing services being introduced. The main purpose of the service validation and...
Understanding the Objectives of Risk Management
Risk, in the IT sector, is defined by the NIST as the probability that a particular threat source will accidentally or intentionally exploit particular information system vulnerabilities. The threats can arise from vulnerabilities or...
ITIL Access Management: Key Objectives and Process
Access Management in an organization is the virtue of how well the organization function when it comes to authorization of assets to users. The concerning aspect of unauthorized access is eliminated with effective access...
Business Value and Optimization of ITIL Service Operation
ITIL Service Operation serves the objective of ensuring the delivery of IT services efficiently in an organization. To ensure the consistent flow of effective IT services, the ITIL service Operation functions and processes are...
Understanding Value Creation Through Services in ITIL
The value of a service comes from what it enables someone to do and what the service is made from. Thus we can say that the customer decides the value of a service and...
Mastering the Seven Step Improvement Process in ITIL
ITIL has been adopted and implemented in organizations across the world. Successful implementations often have a lot of planning, and research in the background before the actual adoption process starts. One such background work...
Understanding ITIL Service Design: Principles and Benefits
It is an established fact that the ITIL service lifecycle has 5 stages – service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation, and continual service design. All these stages are equally important to help...
Understanding the ITIL Service Lifecycle in Detail
Service lifecycle is an approach to IT Service Management that places an emphasis on how important coordination and control is, across the various functions, processes, and systems that are necessary to manage the complete...
